Independent Career

Methylcarvones as immunomodulators through antagonism of aryl hydrocarbon receptor

I. Zůvalová, A. Grycová, J. Hrubý, P. Illés, M. Soural, O. Kováč, M. Šebela, P. Bachleda, E. Kriegová, M. Trajerová, Z. Dvořák, Bioorganic Chem. 2025, 167, 109256.


Natural Product Synthesis Enabled by Radical-Polar Crossover Reactions

Müller, N.; Magauer, T.; Kováč, O.* J. Org. Chem. 2025, 90, 5083–5092.


The Chemistry of Angucyclines

Vysloužilová, D.; Kováč, O.* ChemPlusChem. 2024, 89, e202400307.

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Postdoctoral Work

Evolution of a Strategy for the Total Synthesis of the Ganoderma Meroterpenoid Ganoapplanin

Müller, N.†; Kováč, O.†; Rode, A.†; Atzl, D.; Dietrich, C.; Serna, A.; Schaar, S.; Paparesta, A.; Lichtenegger; J.; Magauer, T. ChemistryEurope, 2025, e202500020.


Development of a Triethylborane Mediated Giese Cyclization/Aldol Reaction Cascade for the Total Synthesis of Ganoapplanin

Müller, N.†; Kováč, O†; Rode, A.; Atzl, D.; Magauer, T. Synlett. 2025,36, A-F.


A General Entry to Ganoderma Meroterpenoids: Synthesis of Applanatumol E, H, and I, Lingzhilactone B, Meroapplanin B, and Lingzhiol

Rode, A.; Müller, N.; Kováč, O.; Wurst, K.; Magauer, T. Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 9017-9021.


Total Synthesis of Ganoapplanin Enabled by a Radical Addition/Aldol Reaction Cascade

Müller, N.†; Kováč, O.†, Rode, A.; Atzl, D.; Magauer, T. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 22937-22942.


Ph.D. Work

Julia-Kocienski-like connective C-C and C=C bond-forming reaction

Bon, D.J.-Y.D.†; Chrenko, D.†; Kováč, O.†; Ferugová, V.; Lasák, P.; Fuksová, M.; Zálešák, F.; Pospíšil, J. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2024, 366, 480–487.

Unified Approach to Benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl-Sulfonamides

Zálešák, F.; Kováč, O.; Lachetová, E.; Št’astná, N.; Pospíšil, J.  J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 11291-11309.

Trisubstituted highly activated benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl-sulfone-containing olefins as building blocks in organic synthesis

Kováč, O.; Zálešák, F.; J.-Y. D. Bon, D.; Roiser, L.; Baar, L. V.; Waser, M.; Pospíšil, J. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 7192-7206.

Enantioselective Catalytic (4+1)-Cyclization of ortho-Hydroxy-para-Quinone Methides with Allenoates

Zielke, K.†; Kováč, O.†; Winter, M.; Pospíšil, J.; Waser, M. Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 8163-8168.

Highlighed in Synfacts.

One and Two-Carbon Homologation of Primary and Secondary Alcohols to Corresponding Carboxylic Esters Using β-Carbonyl BT Sulfones as a Common Intermediate

Bon, D. J. Y. D.; Kováč, O.; Ferugová, V.; Zálešák, F.; Pospíšil, J. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 4990-5001.


Book Chapters

[N,N’-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)]-2,2’- bipyrrolidinebis(acetonitrile)iron(II) hexafluoroantimonate (White–Chen catalyst; Fe(S,S-PDP) or Fe(R,R-PDP)

Magauer, T. Kováč, O. in Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2024, pp. 1–4.